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Come on Western Digital…

by @ Saturday, December 15th, 2007. Filed under tech

So I am setting up my new Terabyte MyBook from Western Digital…. Complaints so far 1. The little getting started leaflet basically just says install the CD and use our software… My problem with that is I hate installing software on my PC that I don’t really want and don’t want that software. So I […]

Do you use the command prompt?

by @ Friday, December 14th, 2007. Filed under tech

Don’t forget to set yourself up with a cool prompt then… Personally I like seeing the time and date stamp. You can do that by setting your prompt to be $D $T$_$P$G That ends up looking like Thu 12/13/2007 23:18:23.03C:\temp\test> That has helped me track things down more than once. I highly recommend it along […]

Good Deal Sam’s Club

by @ Sunday, December 9th, 2007. Filed under tech

I was in Sam’s Club this evening buying some supplies for the month and found a heck of a deal in the computer area. Well a couple, first they had 320GB SATA Western Digital Drives for $49.99. I thought that was pretty darn good. But my bays are all full w/ 500GB drives. The second […]

O’Reilly Active Directory Cookbook Third Edition

by @ Tuesday, November 20th, 2007. Filed under tech

Ok… So anyone read or at least have the Active Directory Cookbook? If so, give me your feedback. I have tentatively agreed to do the third edition of it since it won’t be out until the late 2008 (I don’t have time to do AD 4E unfortunately as the schedule is far more agressive) so […]

Now this is stupid… Go Exchange Dev Team…

by @ Friday, November 9th, 2007. Filed under tech

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944332   User Creation via PowerShell Did Not Succeed When Using LoadGen on Exchange Server 2007 Cause This error may occur if the user account running LoadGen is not a member of the Enterprise Administrators group. This is one of the requirements.If you do not log on as the Enterprise Administrator (for example if you […]

Using Graphics Processors to crack passwords

by @ Wednesday, October 31st, 2007. Filed under tech

http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12825&feedId=online-news_rss20 Rating 3.00 out of 5

Targeting ADUC on specific containers

by @ Saturday, August 25th, 2007. Filed under tech

I recently was pinged by someone wanting to know how to target specific containers when opening ADUC so you don’t have to dive down into the hierarchy. Being the incredibly proficient GUI tool aficionado you know I immediately had the answer and forwarded it off… Well not really, I pinged my good friend Dmitri who […]

11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory (Technet Magazine)

by @ Tuesday, August 21st, 2007. Filed under tech

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/09/ADTools/default.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

Misc Email Question – AdFind

by @ Wednesday, August 1st, 2007. Filed under tech

Question Joe, I’m trying to use AdFind to find members of a specific group. Can I dothis (I haven’t been able to get it to work thus far)? Thanks   Reply Yes, the basic form would be adfind -default -f name=groupname member   This doesn’t take all sorts of things into account but there is […]

Two years later… Are we any more secure now?

by @ Monday, July 23rd, 2007. Filed under tech

No updates.   http://blog.joeware.net/2006/07/18/447/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

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